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	<title>Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Things 300 Didn&#8217;t Tell You</title>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-131018</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert L Quit trying to spit your own deluded homosexual propaganda out about any nation. The Spartans teamed up with a young boy because the boy would talk of things, especially dealing with death, that he would be ashamed to talk of in front of his father. It was easier to train someone who was not your son, punishment included.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert L Quit trying to spit your own deluded homosexual propaganda out about any nation. The Spartans teamed up with a young boy because the boy would talk of things, especially dealing with death, that he would be ashamed to talk of in front of his father. It was easier to train someone who was not your son, punishment included.</p>
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		<title>By: dasdad</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-130686</link>
		<dc:creator>dasdad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In 1941, the British Commonwealth set up their defenses in the same pass that was used in 480 B.C.


 If by &quot;the British Commonwealth&quot; you mean Cyprus which was indeed part of the British commonwealth, along with the greek forces they fought against the Germans in a battle which was started with the Italians before WW2. 
 
The British fought against the germans along new zealanders and greeks in the Battle of Crete not thermopylae.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1941, the British Commonwealth set up their defenses in the same pass that was used in 480 B.C.</p>
<p> If by &#8220;the British Commonwealth&#8221; you mean Cyprus which was indeed part of the British commonwealth, along with the greek forces they fought against the Germans in a battle which was started with the Italians before WW2. </p>
<p>The British fought against the germans along new zealanders and greeks in the Battle of Crete not thermopylae.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert L.</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-99117</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert L.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Spartans who fought in Thermopylae were all homosexuals - it was standing operating instructions in the Spartan army that homosexuals were more suited to fighting external enemies because they could rape their enemies better than women can. Gross. But kinky.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Spartans who fought in Thermopylae were all homosexuals &#8211; it was standing operating instructions in the Spartan army that homosexuals were more suited to fighting external enemies because they could rape their enemies better than women can. Gross. But kinky.</p>
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		<title>By: vasilis</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-90042</link>
		<dc:creator>vasilis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the traitor&#039;s name was Efialtis, which literally translates to &quot;Nightmare&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the traitor&#8217;s name was Efialtis, which literally translates to &#8220;Nightmare&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: BoredQuiz</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-89807</link>
		<dc:creator>BoredQuiz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was wanting to know if the hunchback traitor finally got his own harem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was wanting to know if the hunchback traitor finally got his own harem.</p>
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		<title>By: Edward</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-89503</link>
		<dc:creator>Edward</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It should be called 299 since that one guy left to tell the story. 299 not 300.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It should be called 299 since that one guy left to tell the story. 299 not 300.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-89498</link>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another spartan saying: &quot;If your sword is too short, take a step forward&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another spartan saying: &#8220;If your sword is too short, take a step forward&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Pyleic</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-89497</link>
		<dc:creator>Pyleic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leon; Wikipedia is your friend. Go look up the entry on Dienekes.

He was also a /real/ Spartan created in the not-book, &quot;Greece&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leon; Wikipedia is your friend. Go look up the entry on Dienekes.</p>
<p>He was also a /real/ Spartan created in the not-book, &#8220;Greece&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Pyleic</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-89496</link>
		<dc:creator>Pyleic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leon; Wikipedia is your friend.

Dienekes was also a /real/ Spartan, created in the fifth century, by his mother and father. Present at the Battle of Thermopylae. Or one of them anyway. Voila.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leon; Wikipedia is your friend.</p>
<p>Dienekes was also a /real/ Spartan, created in the fifth century, by his mother and father. Present at the Battle of Thermopylae. Or one of them anyway. Voila.</p>
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		<title>By: leon</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17403/comment-page-1#comment-89411</link>
		<dc:creator>leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dienekes is a fictional spartan created in thebook, &quot;Gates of Fire&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dienekes is a fictional spartan created in thebook, &#8220;Gates of Fire&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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